Fleet Safety: How Top Transportation Companies Leverage Technology to Reduce Liability and Costs

As a fleet manager, you’re always on the lookout for ways to enhance operator safety, keep to schedule and minimize unnecessary costs. Top transportation companies are increasingly turning to safety technology to unlock new efficiencies by taking proactive safety measures, making decisions backed by data and ensuring compliance in fleet operations.

What is Fleet Safety?

At its core, a fleet safety program encompasses all the steps you take to ensure your commercial vehicles are operated safely and efficiently. This includes establishing safety policies and procedures, meeting compliance regulations, improving driver safety and reducing risk and cost in fleets.

Why is Fleet Safety Important?

For you, high safety standards are non-negotiable. They keep your drivers safe, control costs and uphold your company’s good name.

Every step you take to prevent accidents not only protects lives but also shields your company from financial loss and compliance violations. Let’s focus on practical steps to enhance your fleet’s safety and continue to build on your solid track record.

Despite the best intentions, fleet safety challenges such as driver fatigue, distraction, vehicle maintenance issues and compliance with regulations remain constant concerns.

Top transportation companies rely on centralized platforms to:

• Automate the compliance process
• Stay on top of EHSQ training, tracking and planning
• Track asset movement, service history and service status
• Manage claims
• Report and track injuries and illnesses in line with your regional and corporate requirements
• Capture, analyze and prevent incidents and near-misses
• Improve visibility into EHS documentation

By embracing a centralized platform, you can see and manage everything about your fleet’s safety in one place, no matter where your vehicles are.

Real World Example: Virgin Atlantic

While Virgin Atlantic isn’t the typical transportation company, they faced many of the same safety issues as trucking or shipping companies do.

Virgin Atlantic needed a scalable solution to meet its safety management goals. The platform needed to provide visibility to their leadership team, while being user-friendly for data entry, analysis and reporting.

By choosing our flexible platform, Virgin Atlantic streamlined its “Aircraft Damage” report process, automated risk assessments and improved incident management. They also reported a 70% uptick in user adoption rate of Intelex software and mobile app.

It’s a testament to how smart technology is enhancing safety and efficiency. You can read the full case study here.

Take the Next Step in Fleet Safety

Remember that your commitment to fleet safety is not just about ticking boxes. It’s about the operators and the reputation of the company they drive for.

We know it’s a big responsibility. With the help of Intelex, automating the time-consuming processes associated with capturing, monitoring and analyzing EHS data becomes simpler.

You can create a custom product demo to experience the platform for yourself or schedule a call to walk through the platform with someone from our team.